Vipula is the former CFO of HNB Assurance PLC and HNB General Insurance Ltd, where he served for 08 years. He began his professional career at Ernst & Young – Sri Lanka as an Audit Trainee in 2003. During this period, he was also seconded to the Ernst &Young office in Singapore.

During his tenure at HNBA & HNBGI, Vipula provided leadership to various strategic business activities such as the segregation of insurance businesses, the implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs), the implementation of the Risk Based Capital (RBC) regime and the development of annual reports which won multiple awards both locally and internationally.

He played a key role in the insurance industry as the Chairman of the Financial and Technical Sub-Committee (FTSC) of the Insurance Association of Sri Lanka (IASL) from 2010to 2014 and was a key member of the RBC Implementation Committee and the Committee on the Segregation of Insurance Businesses.

Vipula has conducted numerous training programmes on IFRS, RBC and insurance business in Sri Lanka, Hong Kong and Singapore, in collaboration with international organisations such as Marcus Evens and Asia Insurance Review.

Vipula is an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka and a graduate in Business Administration from University of Sri Jayewardenepura.

Indika is an experienced finance professional possessing local and international exposure in the field of Insurance.

He is the former CFO of AIA Insurance Lanka PLC, which he joined in 2012 when it was
under the global insurance giant AVIVA. As CFO, he managed Sri Lanka’s largest insurance acquisition transaction, when AIA took over AVIVA NDB PLC. Moreover, at AIA Indika led the team that won many international Annual Report Awards, beating Fortune 500 companies such as Coca-Cola, Walmart and Boeing.

He also operated as the Chairman of the Finance and Technical Sub-Committee (FTSC) of the Insurance Association of Sri Lanka (IASL) from 2014 to 2016, and as a member of the industry expert panel of the National Insurance Trust Fund on retrocession for a CAT cover.

In his illustrious career, Indika held many important corporate positions, being the CFO at Union Assurance PLC, and the Group CFO at the CeyLine Group of Companies. Additionally, he held responsibility for the finance and planning functions of 22 companies, including a company handling large container vessels and South Asia’s largest Maritime University. He managed the first large-scale ship financing project in Sri Lanka, in joint partnership with Aitken Spence.

Indika is a fellow member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK, and received his MBA from the Postgraduate Institute of Management of University of Sri Jayewardenepura. He is a graduate in Accounting and Finance with First Class Honors from University of Sri Jayewardenepura, and is currently reading for his Masters in Actuarial Studies at University of Colombo.

With over 12 years of experience in marketing, brand management, digital marketing and corporate communications, Dilshan is the former Head of Marketing at HNB Assurance PLC and HNB General Insurance Ltd. He has also worked in three other leading companies in the country, namely DFCC Bank, Ceylinco Life and Cargills Ceylon, holding responsible positions in the areas of marketing and management.

Dilshan has won many local and international awards for brand building and marketing excellence. He won Sri Lanka’s first Digital Marketing Award in insurance at the 5th CMO Asia Awards and was awarded the Most Influential Marketing Leader and the Most Talented Marketing Leader awards in 2014 and 2015, respectively, at the World Marketing Congress in India, organised in association with CMO Council, USA. He was also the first and only person to represent Sri Lanka as a panel member at the Asia Conference on Social Media, Social Commerce and Mobile Marketing for Insurance, organised by Asia Insurance Review, held in Singapore in 2013.

Dilshan is an active proponent of making marketing more relevant to new consumers and is enthusiastic about the novel opportunities presented by digital and social media marketing. He has undergone extensive training both locally and internationally, in Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong. While functioning as a visiting lecturer at many higher educational institutes in Sri Lanka, he is also a passionate corporate trainer and motivational speaker who has conducted many training sessions.

He graduated from University of Kelaniya with a Bachelor of Business Management, specialising in Marketing, and received his MBA from the Postgraduate Institute of Management of University of Sri Jayewardenepura. He is a Chartered Marketer, a Member and a holder of the Professional Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK. He is also a Member of the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing and the Institute of Management, Sri Lanka.

Niranjan was the former CEO (Acting) of HNB Assurance PLC and HNB General Insurance Ltd involved in both Life and General Insurance business. He served the company for 7 years and during in tenure gave leadership to this Fitch ‘A” rated entity, initially focused on General Insurance operations and subsequently overseeing the overall progress at the helm of the company. Prior to that he was the General Manager – Operations at Aviva NDB PLC (now AIA), joining the management team of the company in its formative years when known as CTC Eagle Insurance and serving through its transient period under Eagle Star of London, Zurich Insurance, Switzerland and Aviva, UK. He also served as the senior Underwriter at National Company for Cooperative Insurance (NCCI and now known as Tawuniya ) , Riyadh , Saudi Arabia attached to Reinsurance and Energy Insurance divisions.

In his career spanning over 32 years in the insurance field, he has been involved in every aspect of the insurance business. He involved in the business acquisition through to customer care, underwriting, reinsurance, claims etc, in the capacity of a direct Insurer whilst also building excellent relationship with overseas entities such as reinsurers, reinsurance brokers, loss adjusters and actuaries.

Using his extensive knowledge in the local and overseas markets he has had the experience of designing insurance solution for complex property and casualty risks, including in the field of Oil and Gas. He is actively involved in the Insurance Industry and was the Chairmen of the General Insurance Forum, the technical subcommittee of the Insurance Association of Sri Lanka related to General insurance and is also lecturer at the Sri Lanka Insurance Institute. In addition, he has been a guest speaker at numerous local seminars and forums on Insurance and Reinsurance. Niranjan is a Chartered Insurer and is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute ,London .He is also an alumni of the National University of Singapore, IMD business school, Switzerland and Mt Elisa University Australia through the Melbourne business school.